HOUSE hunters trading up are the most likely buyers of this smartly presented home in Birch View as it exceeds the €500,000 ceiling first-time buyers need to stay below to avail of help to buy schemes. Moreover, it’s not a new build, although it’s good as, thanks to mindful owners. They bought it new in 2020, in one of the early releases at Mount Woods, high up on Maryborough Hill, above Douglas. Built by Glenveagh Homes who acquired the Mount Wood site via a Nama-appointed receiver in 2018 for €22m, it’s one of the larger house types in the scheme, which also includes two- and three-bed townhouses.
No 13 Birch View, featured here, is a 125sq m four-bed semi-d with an excellent A2 energy rating. It comes with a neat home office in a garden room to the rear, which doubled up as a space for music practice.
Accommodation includes open-plan kitchen dining, with double doors to a cobble lock patio, so once the weather picks up — if it ever will — there’s scope to move dining
outside.
In the meantime, with hatches still battened, there’s a stylish living room to cosy-down in.
Selling this good-as-new Birch View home is Michaella Buckley of O’Mahony Walsh auctioneers and she has at least 10 parties booked in to today’s first viewing.
“We’re not really seeing first-time buyers, it’s more people who have something to sell or who have been living with family,” the agent says, adding that the current owners are trading up to a detached home.
She says highlights at No 13 include the terrific energy rating and the versatile garden room, not to mention the location — just a quick spin from Douglas village, close to schools, retail, and public transport.
Situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, with off-street parking for two cars, Ms Buckley brings the property to market with an AMV of €550,000.
VERDICT: Well-kept, stylish home in a strong location Maryborough Hill, Cork
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